In A Chinese Restaurant Which Foods Can A Diabetic Order?
At a Chinese restaurant, opt for dishes with lean proteins and non-starchy vegetables. Steamed options like chicken and broccoli, stir-fried tofu with veggies, or shrimp with snow peas are great choices. Avoid sugary sauces like sweet and sour or General Tso's. Request sauce on the side and choose brown rice in small Show Full Answer
Avoid the tempura batter, sweet sauces and rice The thickener used in Chinese food is cornstarch. 1 tablespoon of cornstarch has 7 carbs. To give you an idea how much that is, I would use 1 tablespoon of cornstarch to thicken about 2 cups of gravy. So on a meal you’re only getting less than 2 grahams of carb in the gravy. The egg drop soup is a great opener instead of the spring roll.
Enjoy … the key like all meals is in a small portion.
I eat Asian regularly.
Stir-fry, soups.
I can eat many entrees. No rice. No noodles. No fried wontons. No chinese pizza or pancakes. Hot and sour soup is good. I like miso soup too.
Egg Foo Young.
Shrimp, or chicken, or beef, or pork and Broccoli.
Pepper Steak.
Boneless Ribs.
Moo Goo Gai Pan.
Szechuan Chicken.
Currys.
Kung Pow.
And more.
Most anything that doesn't have breading or wonton skins.
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If you can handle 15 carbs a meal, noodles, rice, wontons might be off limits.
Otherwise enjoy, but use portion control.
Good luck.
Eat to your blood glucose meter.
Thank you, Margaret. Egg drop it is.
I make the dishes myself so there are no added sugars and no added carbs.
Good luck.
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